But I promised good news with all of this, didn’t I? Well, it’s good news for me anyway. As of today, I am a full-time real professional librarian position. So sure, it’s going to be more work and we’ll see how much it impacts the rest of my life (like the site), but it’s also what I’ve been working towards for almost a decade.

Which, realizing how long I’ve been working in this direction… It reminds me of how I feel like my generation was given the belief that we could do or be anything we want – but not necessarily told how to get from here to there. And it reminds me of how much the economic downturn impacted my generation, and how we have done a lot of hanging onto the jobs we’ve gotten. I suppose taking risks has always been – well, risky – but they’ve seemed particularly risky in recent years.